diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx b/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
index 857f1e273418e1a1dffdd23b03b48476f098913b..d24a9f12a28046b3ea0192b8a971afe28638f030 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
@@ -38,10 +38,9 @@ ALLSPHINXOPTS   = -D version=$(KERNELVERSION) -D release=$(KERNELRELEASE) -d $(B
 I18NSPHINXOPTS  = $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) .
 
 quiet_cmd_sphinx = SPHINX  $@
-      cmd_sphinx = BUILDDIR=$(BUILDDIR) $(SPHINXBUILD) -b $2 $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/$2
+      cmd_sphinx = $(MAKE) BUILDDIR=$(BUILDDIR) $(build)=Documentation/media all; BUILDDIR=$(BUILDDIR) $(SPHINXBUILD) -b $2 $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/$2
 
 htmldocs:
-	$(MAKE) BUILDDIR=$(BUILDDIR) -f $(srctree)/Documentation/media/Makefile $@
 	$(call cmd,sphinx,html)
 
 pdfdocs:
diff --git a/Documentation/media/Makefile b/Documentation/media/Makefile
index 39e2d766dbe32d7ff7f214df6f66dbe34b8d76fa..a7fb35291f6c6148de9f051e49c8f7818f307fb8 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/media/Makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ FILES = audio.h.rst ca.h.rst dmx.h.rst frontend.h.rst net.h.rst video.h.rst \
 
 TARGETS := $(addprefix $(BUILDDIR)/, $(FILES))
 
-htmldocs: $(BUILDDIR) ${TARGETS}
+.PHONY: all
+all: $(BUILDDIR) ${TARGETS}
 
 $(BUILDDIR):
 	$(Q)mkdir -p $@